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cuts off a corner

cuts off a corner is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cut off a corner.

Meaning of cut off a corner

Verb

cut off a corner (third-person singular simple present cuts off a corner, present participle cutting off a corner, simple past and past participle cut off a corner)

  1. To take a shortcut.
    • Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase.1833, Sporting Magazine, volume 6, page 400

Questions about cuts off a corner

What is cuts off a corner the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cuts off a corner is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cut off a corner.

Words near cuts off a corner in the dictionary

  1. cuts like a knife
  2. cuts logs
  3. cuts loose
  4. cuts of their jibs
  5. cuts off
  6. cuts off a corner
  7. cuts off at the pass
  8. cuts off more than one can chew
  9. cuts off one's nose to spite one's face
  10. cuts one loose
  11. cuts one's cloth to suit one's purse

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